The New Wave Time Trippers: An ’80s Cover Band With Big-Time Dreams
Making rent with what you make playing in an ’80s cover band is perhaps a lofty goal. But the Whitefish-based New Wave Time Trippers aren’t about setting limits. Ultimately, these …
Love Advice for the Young
“Take good care of your teeth!” I mean, when is that not great advice? Journeyman musician Bob Athearn, whose stylings often accompany performances by the University of Montana dance department, …
Canada vs. America: A Hockey Story
When producer and total Canadian Anna Cole decided to go to college south of the border in Montana, she thought hockey would be more of a thing. She soon found …
Curling Outdoors: A Love Story
Stanley, Idaho, is famous for two things: It’s often the coldest place in the Continental U.S., and it’s home to the S.O.B, the Sawtooth Outdoor Bonspiel. Bonspiels are curling tournaments …
Episode 6: Madmen, Poets + Singers
David Poole woke up in the snow in Colorado, his lower half numb, and has been working since then to get back to his life outdoors near home: Townsend, Montana. …
Episode 5: Garage Pop + Germs
“I made you a mixtape!” Even though Hana Zimorino started dating the guy Mikki Lunda had been living with for three years, Hana thought, really? They needed to start a …
Episode 4: Conversion + Combat
Jacob and Ben Cronin are brothers with parents who think God can show the path to the good life, which turns out to be the one straight people are on. …
Episode 3: Blobs + Heartbreak
Parenting, man. It’s complicated. “Critters, Blobs and Swan Dives” gets at how parents think about their kids and how their thinking evolves and changes as a baby becomes a person. …
Episode 1: Grandpas + Grenades
“Your grandmother’s lice got going real good, so I took her down to the river when it got to be 30 below, chopped a hole in the ice and put …
The Typewriter Poet
Tyler Knott Gregson of Helena starts every day the same way. He gets out of bed, sits down at his kitchen table and pounds out a poem on an old …